Ten tips to make your application Excel 2007 better

The new Excel 2007 interface has been a daunting one for many friends, and it has also made learning difficult for many friends, but it has also provided significant improvements to encourage users to upgrade to the new Office software. Everyone after a period of use can find a lot of skills to let us better use of Excel 2007, the following is my summary of the top ten tips for your reference.

1, let the Ribbon interface better work for you

The redesigned Office 2007 contains a number of new interface elements designed to make it easier for users to discover the features they need and perform tasks more efficiently. One of the most notable highlights of these new elements is the Ribbon interface, which provides a task-oriented label that can be easily performed, rather than requiring users to find the functionality they need from deep hidden layers of menus as before.

Figure 1 more convenient to perform the required tasks

This is certainly a very convenient improvement for some users, but it is difficult for some friends to accept this change.

In Excel 2007, the classic schema that is unique to Vista is missing, as is the case with other Office software using the Ribbon interface, from which we can get one of the following two conclusions:

• Microsoft is so confident about the Ribbon user interface that it doesn't think users will miss the past interface style.

• Microsoft is so nervous about the Ribbon user interface that it does not dare give users the opportunity to use the old interface style.

No matter what conclusion you draw, many users now find it a headache to master the new interface style. But don't worry too much, there are ways to help you ease the "forgotten Corner" of Microsoft's design.

First, Microsoft provides an Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 common feature comparison search guide that you can use to quickly complete transitions from Excel 2003 to 2007. With this handy tool, you can click a feature in the old style interface of Excel 2003, and then you'll see a hint to show the location of the corresponding function in the Ribbon interface. (But this is an English interface OH)

Figure 2 Microsoft offers tools that allow you to transition from Excel 2003 to 2007